Clinical Research Nurse

2 weeks ago

Bedford, Bedford, United Kingdom Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Full time
About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Clinical Research Nurse to join our team at Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. As a Clinical Research Nurse, you will play a key role in the coordination and management of clinical trials, working closely with healthcare teams and other stakeholders to ensure the smooth delivery of research studies.

Key Responsibilities
  • Coordinate and manage clinical trials, including recruiting and delivering trial-specific procedures
  • Provide verbal and written information and support to patients and carers involved in clinical trials
  • Obtain informed consent from patients and ensure that written informed consent is obtained before any study-related procedures are carried out
  • Coordinate trial patient treatment, assessment, follow-up, and data collection according to specific clinical trial protocols
  • Work closely with multidisciplinary clinical teams to ensure the delivery of high-quality care to patients involved in clinical trials
  • Act as a patient/volunteer advocate, enabling patients to make informed choices concerning their involvement in clinical trials
  • Assist in the education and support of healthcare professionals to enable them to care for clinical trial patients and recruit to clinical trials
Requirements
  • Registered Nurse on the UK NMC register
  • Degree-level or above
  • Extensive experience of working within an acute setting as a qualified nurse, supplemented by specialist clinical training
  • Experience within the NHS environment
  • Experience with a variety of computer programs, including Access, Excel, Outlook, Nervecentre, MediViewer, and other databases
Desirable Qualifications and Experience
  • Post-graduate qualification in clinical research
  • Experience of research in a healthcare setting and clinical trials
Personal Qualities and Skills
  • Excellent organisational skills
  • Ability to work effectively under pressure
  • Ability to solve problems effectively
  • Ability to perform clinical activities specific to adult nursing
  • Knowledge of quality, standard setting, benchmarking, and audit
  • Ability to work across boundaries, integrating with multidisciplinary staff
  • Ability to make clinical judgements regarding patient needs where appropriate
  • Proven clinical skills, including venepuncture, sample management, and ECG tracing
  • Professional attitude towards work, including dealing with absences
  • Ability to work within a multi-disciplinary team
Working Environment

Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust provides hospital services to a growing population of around 700,000 people living across Bedfordshire and the surrounding areas across two busy hospital sites in Bedford and Luton. Both hospital sites offer key services such as A&E, Obstetrics-led Maternity, and Paediatrics.

Our Values

We not only recruit based on qualifications and experience, but also on individuals who demonstrate the behaviours which underpin our Trust's core values. We achieve this by using values-based recruitment. We are dedicated to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone, committed to promoting equality and diversity, and creating a culture that values differences.

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